Teen is Sentenced in the Death of a Pond Gap Man

A 17-year-old charged in a fatal shooting in Kanawha County has received the maximum sentence. On Monday, Eli Nelson was sentenced in Kanawha County Circuit Court to 15 years on a voluntary manslaughter charge. He will be resentenced as an adult in January after turning 18. Nelson was involved in a shooting that happened on Third Street West, just outside of St. Albans city limits on March 10 in which Jim Keith of Pond Gap was killed.